Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth (6 June 1980-) was an American Fox News contributor and conservative political activist and commentator.

Biography
Peter Brian Hegseth was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 6 June 1980, and he published the conservative The Princeton Tory publication during his years as a student at Princeton. In 2003, while working for Bear Sterns, Hegseth enlisted in the US National Guard, and he was deployed to Guantanamo Bay in 2004 and served as a platoon leader. He then volunteered to serve in the Iraq War, commanding a platoon in Baghdad and Samarra and winning a Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, and an Army Commendation Medal. He went on to become a conservative political activist, becoming treasurer of Vets for Freedom before founding the MN PAC political action committee in 2012. In 2014, he became a Fox News contributor. During the 2016 presidential election, he initially supported Marco Rubio as the Republican nominee, but he later backed Ted Cruz and finally backed Donald Trump.